Whistle



Patented June 17, 1930 BERNARD H. HARTLEY, or LnwIsTowN, rEniIsYLVANIA WHISTLE Application filed. September 14, 1928. Serial No. 306,032.

My present invention has reference to a toy novelty whistle, and my object is the provision of a whistle that is shaped to simulate an aeroplane of the monoplane type and wherein the air that produces a whistling eliect will be utilized to rotate-the propeller of the device.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in the improvement hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a. toy whistle in accordance with this invention.

Figure 2 is a frontelevation thereof.

Figure 3 is a rear elevation thereof.

Figure 4 is a top plan view thereof. 7

The body 1 of my toy novelty whistle is of the ordinary construction, being in the nature of a tube one of whose ends is flared inwardly, and its second end, from the bottom of the body is cut angularly to provide the mouth portion 2 of the whistle, the body at the top thereof, being formed with the usual substantially V-shaped opening 3 through which the sound waves from the whistle are emitted. The end of the body 1, opposite that provided with the mouth piece 2 has pivotally secured thereon an imitation propeller 4 and the rear of the body is provided with a restricted opening 5 afforded by the flat face of a plug which is inserted in the said end of the whistle body. Thepivot for the imitation propeller is inserted in the outer end of the plug. The mouth end of the body of the whistle has fixed thereon. a plate representing a rudder 6, the said rudder being notched, as at 7 in a line, with the opening through the mouth piece of the whistle.

The body is provided with imitation landing wheels 9 and with upstanding standards which are preferably in the nature of headed elements such as pins 11. The pins 11 have slidably and, therefore, adjustably mounted thereon the plane 12 of the imitation airship. The plane 12 serves as an air directing element for the air that passes through'the opening 3 as well as a sound board. By adjusting the plane on the pins 11 the sound of the whistle may be magnilied or decreased and likewise the air which creates such sound may be directed towards the center or toward the ends of the imitation propeller 4-. The restricted opening 5 is not of a sufficient size to prevent the whistling noise being emitted through the opening 3 when the rudder end is placed in the mouth of the user and the user forces his breath therethrough. A suflicient amount of air will pass through the opening 5 to assist in rotating the propeller 4.

The major quantity of air finds its way through the sound outlet opening 3 and is directed against the inner face of the plane 12 and from thence deflected downwardly and outwardly to contact with the blades of the propeller 4 to. cause the same to rapidly rotate when the whistle is operated.

hile I have illustrated a satisfactory embodiment of my improved device my features of invention are capable of extended application and I do not wish to be restricted to the specific structure herein shown and described.

Having described the invention, I claim:

1. A novelty of the class described, comprising a toy whistle shaped to represent the body of an aeroplane, a rudder at the mouth end of the whistle, a propeller pivotally secured at the second end of the whistle, and a plane supported from and arranged above the body and disposed opposite the sound outlet opening in the body.

2. A novelty of the class described, comprising toy whistle shaped to represent the body of an aeroplane, a rudder at the month end of the whistle, a propeller pivotally secured at the second end ofthe whistle, headed uprights on the body to the rear of the sound outlet opening therein, and a plane adjustably mounted on said uprights.

3. A novelty of the class described, comprising a toy Whistle representing the body of an aeroplane, said Whistle at its month end having a rudder fixed thereto, and having a propeller blade pivotally secured to the second end thereof, said body having a restricted opening in its last mentioned end, upstandlng headed elements on the body opposite the sound outlet opening therein, and a laterally extending plane supported and vertically adjustable on said headed elements.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature. B. H. HARTLEY. 

